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Where We Arrive
In his third collection of poetry, Thomas Mitchell celebrates life more powerfully and more enthusiastically than ever before, reaffirming our connectedness with one another and with the natural world. His work is marked with a...
ISBN: 9781733340083
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Mark Neely’s third collection, Ticker, follows the life of its main character, Bruce, as he navigates marriage, children, aging parents, politics, race, religion, global catastrophe, and the irrelevance of middle age. Throughout the book the...
ISBN: 9781733340090
more detailsCarbon
Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine—Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe’s east: Svetlana Lavochkina sends readers on a double odyssey with two adventurers, the fiery blacksmith...
ISBN: 9781733340045
more detailsMountain and Flower
The Selected Poems of Mykola Vorobiov
Mountain and Flower is Mykola Vorobiov’s second book in English translation. Translator Maria Rewakowicz presents a selection of poems spanning more than fifty years of Vorobiov’s poetic craft, beginning with poems from his first collection...
ISBN: 9781733340052
more detailsMy Mother’s Red Ford
New and Selected Poems (1986–2019)
My Mother’s Red Ford represents Roy Bentley’s first six books, four of which won or distinguished themselves in national competitions. According to Kate Fox, writing of Walking with Eve in the Loved City: “Readers of...
ISBN: 9781733340069
more detailsThe River People
The poems in Polly Buckingham’s debut collection, The River People, move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political. The speaker in these poems is...
ISBN: 9781733340076
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more detailsThough the Walls Are Lit
Though the Walls Are Lit considers the Irish tradition of hunger strikes and vocal lament. Weaving together hymns, canticles, and blues riffs, Holt configures the page as a threshold where poet and stranger may meet...
ISBN: 9780999199497
more detailsNeighborhood of Gray Houses
The poems in Derek Annis’s debut collection, Neighborhood of Gray Houses, wander through a landscape darkened by childhood abandonment and loss, before coming to rest in a home illuminated by new life and cautious optimism....
ISBN: 9781733340007
more detailsDon't Touch the Bones
Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2019.
Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s Don’t Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world’s, a nation’s, and a family’s history.
ISBN: 9781733340021
more detailsA New Orthography
Poems
A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost Horse Press’s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of...
ISBN: 9781733340038
more detailsPray to the Empty Wells
Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The forty-four poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s forthcoming book of Ukrainian-language poems of the same...
ISBN: 9780999199480
more detailsRadiation King
Ten years in the making, Radiation King, the second full-length collection by poet Jason Gray, takes us to the beginning and the possible futures of the atomic world we created at the start of the...
ISBN: 9780999199435
more detailsSweetclover
Grounded in the physical while asking metaphysical questions, the poems in Sweetclover detail love, wilderness, fracture, and fusion. They speak of wildflowers, the slant of a collarbone, the flight feathers of predatory birds, and the...
ISBN: 9780999199459
more detailsAmerican Loneliness
American Loneliness is peopled with the famous and the not-so-famous. It is a book tenanted by the Wright Brothers and Nettie Potter Bentley, Joseph Kennedy and James Brown and Jay Gatsby. America, as presented, bests...
ISBN: 9780999199473
more detailsPantheon
Philip Memmer’s Pantheon is a collection of dramatic monologues written from the perspectives of imaginary gods. But these are not the usual mythological suspects: the voices here include such unlikely deities as the God of...
ISBN: 9780999199442
more detailsSmokes
Yuri Izdryk’s poetry explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and even God. All his poems operate with an indefatigable play with language that encompasses incessant punning rhymes, Joycean multilingual puns,...
ISBN: 9780999199466
more detailsFrankenstein's Children
Frankenstein ‘s Children explores Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a lens into contemporary loneliness and hunger, fantasies of reanimation and artificial thought born of a dread that would deny or master the necessities that define us,...
ISBN: 9780999199411
more detailsTerribly in Love
This bilingual edition is the first English-language collection by the most celebrated woman poet in Lithuania today. Tautvyda Marcinkeviciute’s voice is both cool and ferocious, as one might expect from the official translator of Sylvia...
ISBN: 9780998196398
more detailsI'm Half of Your Heart
New and Selected Poems, 1967–2017
In more than seventy poems gathered in I’m Half of Your Heart: Selected Poems, 1967–2017, we encounter a poet who is as politically outspoken as he is lyrically private. Fascinated by the quotidian bric-a-brac, keenly...
ISBN: 9780999199428
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